5 feb

Syrian Army forces have driven back a group of militants who were attempting to enter the country from the Lebanese border.
The gunmen, who were riding cars and motorcycles, tried to enter the Syrian city of Talkalakh, located 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest of Damascus, late on Sunday, but were repelled by Syrian government forces and forced to flee back into Lebanon, the SANA news agency reported.

A Yemeni daily disclosed on Monday that the arms cargo confiscated off the country’s coasts was headed for the rebel groups in Syria, dismissing the western media allegations that the weapons cargo was sent to the Yemeni rebels by Iran.

‘Israel, al-Qaeda two sides of Syria crisis’, Eric Draister, the founder of stopimperialism.com, from New York, Kevin Barret, a founding member of muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance from Tehran, and Richard Hellman, president of the Middle East research center, from Washington.

An armed terrorist group attacked the Midan-2 high-tension electric power transfer station on Monday evening, causing significant damage to the station resulting in a blackout in some areas in Damascus and its countryside.